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Scott Jaschik

Scott Jaschik, Editor, is one of the three founders of Inside Higher Ed. With Doug Lederman, he leads the editorial operations of Inside Higher Ed, overseeing news content, opinion pieces, career advice, blogs and other features. Scott is a leading voice on higher education issues, quoted regularly in publications nationwide, and publishing articles on colleges in publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Salon, and elsewhere. He has been a judge or screener for the National Magazine Awards, the Online Journalism Awards, the Folio Editorial Excellence Awards, and the Education Writers Association Awards. Scott served as a mentor in the community college fellowship program of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, of Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a member of the board of the Education Writers Association. From 1999-2003, Scott was editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Scott grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and graduated from Cornell University in 1985. He lives in Washington.

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Missouri Governor Jay Nixon announced that he has dropped the idea of having the state borrow money from university reserve funds, the Associated Press reported. The idea he floated would have used the borrowed money to avoid deep cuts in state appropriations. But many legislators questioned whether this approach was sound fiscal policy and worried that the state universities might never get their money back.

Twenty-one men from Haiti have sued Fairfield University over the sex abuse they suffered when they were children cared for at a charity in Haiti, The Hartford Courant reported. Fairfield is a target because, the suits allege, the university supported the charity (founded by an alumnus since accused of being a pedophile) and should have known about the abuse. A lawyer for the university said that the suit is incorrect in blaming Fairfield.

The French government has backed away from a proposed tightening of student visa rules that would have made it difficult for foreign students to stay in France after graduation, The Washington Post reported. The proposal had been strongly criticized by university leaders, who said that the restrictions would have been inconsistent with the country's values, and would have hurt the institutions' standing around the world.

Law students who switch law schools do well academically at their new institutions, despite generally having lower academic credentials than those who enrolled as first-year law students. That's a major finding of this year's Law School Survey of Student Engagement. The survey also finds that these students may not be fully integrated into their new institutions.

Coker College is starting a master of science program in sports management.
Jackson Community College, in Michigan, is starting an associate degree in manufacturing.
Pacific Northwest College of Art is starting a master of arts program in critical theory and creative research.

A trial started Maryland on a suit by supporters of Maryland's historically black colleges who say that the state is failing to meet its obligations to them, The Washington Post reported. Under past desegregation agreements, the state pledged to enhance the colleges so they could compete for all kinds of students in an era when predominantly white colleges recruit black students.

In today’s Academic Minute, David Courtwright of the University of North Florida examines the perceived conservative shift in politics in the United States. Find out more about the Academic Minute here.